Athletic Training Research Papers

I’m willing to bet that if I went up to ten random people, that few to none of them would really know what an Athletic Trainer does. Most people are not educated about the role of Athletic Trainers because they are relatively new to the health care system. I believe that education is the key to making Athletic Training even more successful than it already is. For example, most of the club sports players at Towson have no idea that they can visit the Athletic Training clinic. I’ve heard the phrase “do no harm” so many times, but the possibility to do good decays exponentially when people don’t know what Athletic Trainers do and when those who should have access to this form of health care don’t know that they do. Though educating others about Athletic Trainers is one of my goals, it is not the main reason I want to become one. I want to be an Athletic Trainer because I
I was hiking up a mountain in Switzerland during a class trip, and my shins were in so much pain that I cried my way through the hike. I realized that I don’t want anyone else to be in as much pain as I was, and that the best way to help them was to enter into the health care field. At first, my dislike for the Athletic Trainer that I knew made me want to go into physical therapy, because I thought that’s where I could do the most good. Over the course of the semester, I’ve changed my mind. Instead, I would like to be a better Athletic Trainer than he was, so that others will do the same. What being an Athletic Trainer means to me in the current health care system does not have much to do with the system at all. It has everything to do with the people. Because of the sub-par care I received and the constant pain I was in due to the untreated injuries, I am set on becoming an Athletic Trainer to give every one of my patients quality care so they won’t be in pain, and they can return to doing what they love with no